From efegraus at bren.ucsb.edu Sun Feb 3 22:30:04 2002 From: efegraus at bren.ucsb.edu (Eric Fegraus) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:30:04 -0800 Subject: [Knb-course] Morpho Questionnaire Message-ID: Hi Everyone, Below is a brief Morpho questionnaire. If you've had the chance to use Morpho please take a few minutes to respond. Your feedback is vital for the software developers to continue to make Morpho a more effective and user friendly ecological software product. Your comments have already resulted in many improvements! You can cut and paste your anonymous response on the KNBseminar web site: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/knbseminar/feedback.html Eric ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) How many hours have you spent working with Morpho? 2) Please rank from 1 ? 5 the following regarding Morpho?s user interface: 1 = Very difficult and/or did not complete. 5 = Very easy. Accomplished the task in one or two tries. ? Downloading, creating a profile and installing Morpho? ? Logging into the KNB? ? Ability to create a data package via the Package Wizard? ? Ability to edit an existing data package? ? Intuitively understand which EML field to enter your metadata in Morpho? ? Sharing data using Metacat/KNB? ? Exporting a data packages to metacat? 3) What main user interface components of Morpho do you feel need more work and what changes would you like to see? 4) Have you looked at data packages created by other users? Yes/No a. Can you efficiently find sufficient metadata to understand the packages? Please explain. b. If you wanted to save and use others? data, is the export tool effective? Please explain. 5) Would you enter your data and metadata into Morpho? Yes/No a. Would you use Morpho for your personal use (i.e. to archive your data and metadata)? Please explain? b. Would you consider making your metadata and/or data available to others? Please explain? 6) Additional comments? From garciae7 at msu.edu Tue Feb 12 08:10:14 2002 From: garciae7 at msu.edu (Erica Ann Garcia) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:10:14 EST Subject: [Knb-course] Fwd: MI noxious weeds address Message-ID: <200202121610.g1CGAFf34122@pilot14.cl.msu.edu> Hello all, The following website has three catagories of noxious weeds thus what do those who worked on the invasion question think? Let me know and then I will get the KBS catagories worked out. Thanks, erica > Erica- > This is from the USDA invaders database system--lists all noxious weed seeds > in MI: > http://invader.dbs.umt.edu/Noxious_Weeds/state_run.asp?state=Michigan > -Sarah > -- > > ************************* > Sarah Emery > Graduate Student > Kellogg Biological Station > Michigan State University > 3700 E. Gull Lake Rd. > Hickory Corners, MI 49060 > emerysa1 at pilot.msu.edu > > > > -- ************************************************************************** Erica A. Garcia email: garciae7 at pilot.msu.edu Kellogg Biological Station 3700 E. Gull Lake Dr. home: 616 671 4887 Hickory Corners, MI 49060 office: 616 671 2233 "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." -Mark Twain From jim_grace at usgs.gov Thu Feb 14 07:11:27 2002 From: jim_grace at usgs.gov (James B Grace) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:11:27 -0600 Subject: [Knb-course] Fwd: MI noxious weeds address Message-ID: Erica, Thanks for checking into this for the group. I spent some time looking at the ARS list for Louisiana and it is completely inadequate, showing only 36 invasive species when we have over 1000. I then did some searching and calling around and conclude that the best national database is the one at http://plants.usda.gov/ This is not a list but, instead, a database. While they have lists at this site they are again the state lists, which are incomplete. What is needed is to check each species individually to see whether it is native or not and whether it is listed as noxious or not. I think this will be the best general approach, though folks in specific locations may have more information available for their state or region. Thanks for your efforts, Jim Grace Erica Ann Garcia To: knb-course at ecoinformatics.org Sent by: cc: knb-course-admin at ecoinfor Subject: [Knb-course] Fwd: MI noxious weeds matics.org address 02/12/02 10:10 AM Hello all, The following website has three catagories of noxious weeds thus what do those who worked on the invasion question think? Let me know and then I will get the KBS catagories worked out. Thanks, erica > Erica- > This is from the USDA invaders database system--lists all noxious weed seeds > in MI: > http://invader.dbs.umt.edu/Noxious_Weeds/state_run.asp?state=Michigan > -Sarah > -- > > ************************* > Sarah Emery > Graduate Student > Kellogg Biological Station > Michigan State University > 3700 E. Gull Lake Rd. > Hickory Corners, MI 49060 > emerysa1 at pilot.msu.edu > > > > -- ************************************************************************** Erica A. Garcia email: garciae7 at pilot.msu.edu Kellogg Biological Station 3700 E. Gull Lake Dr. home: 616 671 4887 Hickory Corners, MI 49060 office: 616 671 2233 "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." -Mark Twain _______________________________________________ knb-course mailing list knb-course at ecoinformatics.org http://www.ecoinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/knb-course From efegraus at bren.ucsb.edu Thu Feb 14 14:54:12 2002 From: efegraus at bren.ucsb.edu (Eric Fegraus) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:54:12 -0800 Subject: [Knb-course] Research Questions and ppt's on web Message-ID: Hi Everyone, We've posted the research questions and the data czars powerpoint presentations on the knb site. http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/knbseminar/instruction/index.html On a side note, if any groups would like to have a university specific web site just let us know. Eric From AmandaKurzman at aol.com Mon Feb 18 15:03:04 2002 From: AmandaKurzman at aol.com (AmandaKurzman@aol.com) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:03:04 EST Subject: [Knb-course] Temporal variation in rainfall Message-ID: <22.23e26e15.29a2e228@aol.com> Hello all! I am working on precipitation data for the Michigan State University KNB Seminar group. One thing we were debating was how best to deal with/address temporal variation in precipitation. It was suggested that for the metadata analysis, this may be a useful thing to coordinate among groups. We discussed variation within growing seasons, variation between growing seasons, and variation relative to the 30 year average. (Our growing season is defined as April 1st through harvest). If you have suggestions or information about how your group plans to address temporal variation in precipitation, please contact me. Thanks! Amanda Kurzman (kurzmana at msu.edu) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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